My partner got me the ep40 for Christmas, I’ve put off learning it till today. It’s great for beats no doubt but i was really struggling with its work flow to record in 4/8bar samples that kept in time with the beat, even after figuring out how to do hands free recording on playing after setting the threshold while the beat plays to a set length of bars. I’d assume if you did this it would always be in time but it seemed an utter pain to make it work, even after nudging it’s not bang on. Makes me agree with what was said above about this only being good for one shot stuff? shame as seems to have loads of head room and guitar recordings played back sound nice and crunchy.
Anyway here’s my first play about - still no clue how the song mode works will keep going:
I haven’t noticed this, but I don’t think I’ve used a 8-bar sample on it. Did you try time stretching to bars? Do you know the bpm? Even if you don’t know the bpm, time stretching to bars should work.
they replied. unfortunately, as assumed, the timestretching is per sample only and cannot be set for multisample-slices individually.
here’s what they wrote:
“we are happy to hear that this third party tool is working fine!
regarding the time stretching, unfortunately, we don’t have anything to suggest: on the device, this setting is decided per sample, and it’s not possible to edit multiple samples at the same time, unless you don’t assign the fader to time (9) and you tweak it like this, even if you won’t be able to seet a bpm or number of bars for the samples.”
TE seem pretty okay with comms when you email them directly. I also contacted them too regarding EP-PatchStudio and getting some additional information about the device I needed.
Beta testing will be starting soon for my new app. I’ll keep you all updated in the app specific thread.
I’ve been building something I’m really excited to share, it’s not ready just yet but should launch soon — EP-PatchStudio, a native desktop app for EP-40, EP-133 and EP-1320.
The short version: it gives you your time back.
The Problem
We all know the pain:
TE’s EP Sample Tool is slow and clunky at times and is online only
Creating multisamples means juggling multiple apps
Sampling a synth properly takes forever
Backups are a nightmare
I got tired of spending more time on admin than making music. So I built the fix.
The New Workflow
Got samples? → Drag and drop into EP-PatchStudio → Zones auto-map from metadata/filenames → Click “Send to Device” → Done. Less than 2 minutes.
Don’t have samples? → Connect your synth via MIDI → Set note range, click Record → It plays, records, trims and maps everything automatically → Click “Send to Device” → Done. 5 minutes.
No more 45-minute workflows. No more bouncing between apps.
Random, but Moog Audio no longer lists the EP-133, but the medieval and riddim are still listed. With the code from the windows usb driver showing the EP-133 and EP-136 (?!) being devices that will support USB audio, I wonder if there’s a revision of the original EP coming, maybe with 128MB of storage and usb audio?
got my ep-40 in november. didn’t like it first. was missing digitakt’s sounddesign deepness, LFOs and stuff. but loved the form factor. the fact that it turns on instantly and has a speaker makes it feel like an instrument - not a computer. love that. slowly starting to get the hang of it. especially the ultra-portable combo together with the op-z for some bass. here’s a jam. marching band anyone?
oooh, thank you so much, @schoolbabyboy & @captain8! happy, you like it!
and of course thanks again to @waftlord for the multisamplebuilder. without it, the EP-40 wouldn’t be half as fun…
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